{"article":{"id":246784,"heading":"BTL:Obama: Nation's Longest War in Afghanistan Will Continue 3 More Years","author":"Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http","created":"2011-07-03 11:16:20","modified":"2011-07-03 11:16:20","last_modified":"Sun, 03 Jul 2011 18:16:20","article":"<p>Obama: Nation's Longest War in Afghanistan Will Continue 3 More Years  <br><br> Interview with Anna Berlinrut, organizer with Military Families Speak Out, conducted by Scott Harris  <br>  <br>   <br>  <br> In a nationally televised address on June 22, President Obama announced he would withdraw 10,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2011. That represents one-third of the 33,000 additional soldiers he ordered deployed to Afghanistan in December 2009. Obama also told the nation that the remaining 23,000 surge-troops would return to the U.S. by September 2012, with the remaining 70,000 to be withdrawn in 2014.   <br><br> Story continues <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.btlonline.org\/2011\/seg\/110708af-btl-berlinrut.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.btlonline.org\/2011\/seg\/110708af-btl-berlinrut.html<\/a><\/p>\n","contact":"mail(AT)btlonline(DOT)org","link":"Between the Lines c\/o Squeaky Wheel Productions P.O. Box 110176 Trumbull, CT 06611","address":"Between the Lines c\/o Squeaky Wheel Productions P.O. Box 110176 Trumbull, CT 06611","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Interview with Anna Berlinrut, organizer with Military Families Speak Out, conducted by Scott Harris","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2011\/07\/246784.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}